Fire
in the sky
Five area fire departments went back to school Saturday
to learn the problems and procedures for handling liquified
petroleum gas incidents and how to safely extinguish a
propane fire.
The LEPC (Local Emergency Planning Commission) and the
Missouri Propane Gas Association sponsored instructors
from the University of Missouri-Columbia (Fire and Rescue
Training Institute) to teach a 12 hour course on the properties
of propane and how it reacts; water hose line techniques;
basic firefighting skills; and then making an attack on
an actual LP bobtail tank fire holding 500 gallons of
propane (pictured above). Six teams rotated in handling
the deliberately set propane fire.
The firefighters that completed the 12 hour course will
receive a certificate. The propane was donated by Nash
Gas of Dearborn. The fire districts who participated were
Central Platte Fire District, Dearborn Fire District,
Edgerton-Trimble Fire District, South Central Buchanan
Fire District, and Camden Point Fire District. The course
was held at North Platte High School in Dearborn.
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